Literacy, Religion and Popular Politics The Statistical Account presents a fascinating picture of eighteenth-century Scotland. It gives a rich and often detailed view of the working lives of ordinary people, and was of particular importance …Continue reading →

Highlights from the RDM Programme Progress Report: Mar. & Apr. 2015 9 EPSRC grant holders and researchers were interviewed as follow-up to the EPSRC Expectations Awareness Survey conducted in February. A new leaflet detailing all systems in the RDM portfolio is …Continue reading →

Data Visualisation with D3 workshop Last week I attended the 4th HSS Digital Day of Ideas 2015. Amongst networking and some interesting presentations on the use of digital technologies in humanities research (the two presentations …Continue reading →

A Hare Raising Tale Over the last month, conservation has been playing host to two rather notorious and unsavoury characters, namely William Burke and William Hare. Thankfully for us not in person but rather …Continue reading →

Development model The Data Vault project is a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and the University of Manchester. The majority of the funding from the Data Spring programme has been allocated to …Continue reading →

Dealing with Data 2015 – Call For Papers Date:                     Monday 31 August 2015, 9:30 – 16:00 (lunch provided) Location:             Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh Themes: Data creation, including non-traditional data types Data analysis Data visualisation Data security …Continue reading →

The Conservation of the Musical Instruments of the MIMEd Collection The collections of Musical Instrument Museums of Edinburgh (MIMEd) comprise an extensive array of musical instruments from very different periods, geographical regions, and social contexts. Contrary to some of the …Continue reading →

Edinburgh DataShare – new features for users and depositors I was asked recently on Twitter if our data library was still happily using DSpace for data – the topic of a 2009 presentation I gave at a DSpace User …Continue reading →

William Hunter (1861-1937) & the Order of St. Sava TAGS: Order of St. Sava | William Hunter (1861-1937) EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY ALUMNUS SERVED IN SERBIA IN CHARGE OF A MEDICAL MISSION AND EARNED THE ORDER OF ST. SAVA, ONE OF SERBIA’S HIGHEST HONOURS During the First World War, and …Continue reading →

‘The County Surveys 1793 – 1817: Exploring Considered Digitisation’ Those familiar with the Statistical Accounts of Scotland will be aware that they belong to a greater body of works initiated and supervised by Sir John Sinclair, forming the base of …Continue reading →